Volume: 86 cc
Weight: ~140 g
Length: 102 mm
Width: 50 mm
Thickness (max): 17.9 mm

Display: Active matrix 2.4” QVGA main color display (320 x 240 pixels), up to 16 million colors

Price: $699.00 to $786.20

The Nokia N81 & Nokia N81 8GB are members of the Nokia N-Series which includes other popular phones including the Nokia N73, Nokia N77 & the Nokia N95. The N81 & N81 8GB are identical in design & features but come with differing memory options & the phones have different colour options on their casing. The Nokia N81 & Nokia N81 8GB come with a Nokia headset with remote control, connectivity cable, compact travel charger & battery but the Nokia N81 comes with a 2 Gbyte MicroSD™ memory card. The N81 comes with an expandable memory options which allows the user to add memory card to suit their storage needs & the start up kit includes a 2 Gbyte MicroSD™ memory card. The N81 is mainly black in colour with highlights of coloured edging around the casing & the navigation wheel. The N81 comes in a choice of two colours which are graphite grey & cobalt blue. The Nokia N81 8GB comes with 8 Gbytes of internal flash memory which allows the user to store much data on their new handset. The N81 8GB also comes with coloured edging around the casing & navigation wheel which are subtly coloured cocoa brown. The handset is solid & robust in design which weighs 140 grams & the overall measurements are 17.9mm deep by 50mm wide by 102mm high. The Nokia N81 & N81 8GB are beautiful in design & in capabilities. The phones are 3G capable handsets complete with WLAN technology. The phones are media, music & internet focused handsets which come with a simple slide opening casing complete with easy access music, video & function keys. The user can enjoy viewing the large screen when the handsets are open or closed. The screen is large measuring 2.4 inches with a high screen resolution & displays up to sixteen million colours for a quality viewing experience.
Nokia N80 has one of the best LCD displays, with a resolution of 352 x 416 pixels and boasting 262,144 colours. The 3 mega-pixel camera in the phone takes good pictures and has a 20x digital zoom and flash. However, the quality of photographs is no where near to the ones taken by Nokia N90. The phone has an advanced music player, which allows you to pick your favourite music track from a displayed play list. The audio quality of Nokia n80 is considered to be very good and the package includes a stereo headset. The phone comes with a 128 MB memory card, which is enough a storage space for your music files. It plays, MP3, AAC, m4a, eAAC+ and WMA format music tracks.

When the N81 8GB is closed while hiding the numeric keypad, I counted 18 buttons just on the front part of the phone! If two of those buttons are the dedicated gaming keys, that means the other 16 buttons are packed together with the Naviwheel. Let’s see the keys in that area: green call, red end-call, left soft-key, right soft-key, main menu, multimedia menu, clear, play/pause, stop, forward, back, left, right, up, down, and center.

Even though there’s a lot of buttons in that part of the phone, Nokia does a great job illuminating only the necessary buttons depending on what you are using. For example, the music keys are dimmed and the gaming keys are off when using the phone in general. When the music player is on, the music keys light up. The gaming keys lights up when playing an N-gage game and also when used to zoom in or out of photos in the gallery.
The Nokia N81 8GB came with earphones that go around the back of your neck. It connects to a middle piece where you can control music or pick up phone calls. I prefer regular earphones that go down my neck, but joggers like the ones that go around the neck because it doesn’t fall out easily. You can also use your own earphones if you like, but, people are starting to use bluetooth headphones to listen to music on their phones. You can find out more about Nokia’s new bluetooth headsets at Non Stop Living.

User Interface:
Operating system: Symbian OS ver. 9.2
User interface: S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack (S60 3.1)
Dedicated media keys for quick and easy access to music and video:
play/pause, forward, rewind, stop
Dedicated game & volume keys
Device hold key
Multimedia key & Navi™ wheel

Music:
Music Features

Nokia Nseries digital music player
supports MP3 (VBR), AAC, eAAC+, AAC+, WMA/M4A, WAV
OMA DRM 1.x, 2.0, Windows Media DRM (OTI/OTA with Nokia Music Store*)
8 GB Internal flash memory (for up to 6000 songs**)
Playlist management
Synchronize music with Windows Media Player 11 installed on your compatible PC
Media keys (play/pause, stop, forward, rewind)
Integrated stereo speakers
Dedicated volume keys (20 volume steps)
5-band equalizer
Nokia AV Connector 3.5 mm (can also be used with standard 3.5 mm headphones)
Nokia Stereo Music Headset (HS-45 + AD-54) as inbox accessory
Navi™ wheel support
UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) music streaming
Bluetooth wireless technology A2DP profile (Bluetooth stereo audio)

Nokia Podcasting
Find, subscribe to and download podcasts over the air direct to your device
Listen to or watch the podcast
Browse and search the feed directory to find the podcasts you want
Subscribe and get new podcast episodes downloaded automatically
Choose whether the Podcasting application uses wireless LAN (requires WLAN network access) or GPRS/WCDMA packet data (requires a packet data plan) to download podcasts to your Nokia Nseries device.

FM Radio with Visual Radio support
Stereo FM radio (87.5-108 MHz /76-90 MHz)***
Get instant access to your favorite stations.
Connect to the FM radio and find the music, sports and news broadcasts in the station list for your region
Choose your favorites from a regularly updated directory and save them as a preset
Listen to music and interact with your favorite radio stations
Find out what song is playing, who sings it, and other artist information
Enter contests and answer surveys, vote for your favorite songs
Find out more about Visual Radio

Nokia Music Store
Purchase music online in Nokia Music Store*
Connect to your account from your compatible PC and mobile device
Search by artist name or title
Explore more music with genre searches and recommendations
Buy, download and listen to tracks on your PC
Connect to Nokia Music Store on your mobile device through WiFi or 3G networks
Use the wishlist to tag tracks on your mobile device to download later on your PC
Listen to 30 second clips before choosing to download
Buy and use pre-paid and bonus credit
Use Microsoft’s Windows Media Player 11 installed on your compatible PC to synchronize music and playlists between your PC and mobile device

Imaging:
Integrated 3 megapixel camera sensor (2048 x 1536 pixels) with up to 20 x digital zoom and close-up mode.
Landscape capture with dedicated capture key
Video call, video sharing and video clip sharing
Video recording and playback
High-quality video capture in MP4 and 3GP formats with up to 5x digital zoom
Image and video uploading to the Web
Integrated flash LED with red-eye reduction
Image and video editors
Nokia Lifeblog

Messaging:
Text messaging: supports concatenated SMS, picture messaging, SMS distribution list
Multimedia messaging: combine image, video, text, and audio clip and send as MMS to a compatible phone or PC; use MMS to tell your story with a multi-slide presentation
Automatic resizing of your megapixel images to fit MMS (max 300 KB size depending on the network)
Predictive text input: support for all major languages in Europe and Asia-Pacific

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